Hi!

Try this:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A4="apples"),--(B1:B40),B1:B4)

Or, use a cell to hold apples:

D1 = apples

=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A4=D1),--(B1:B40),B1:B4)

Biff

"gmac" wrote in message
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I want to sum all the positive values from a database for a single
criteria.

e.g. database is,
fruit buy/sell quantity
apples -5
oranges 2
apples 3
apples 1

I want to sum all the positive values only for apples. (Note my real
database has many more entries than this).

so I am sumif(database, "apples", quantity) which returns -1

what can I do to just get the positive numbers of apples ??

Help Please :)


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